Emperors and New Clothes
I wonder, how many Canadians really support the War in Afghanistan? Because the New Conservatives have spent a lot of money on it, without really ever having received a mandate to do so from the electorate. And yet, Stephen Harper is arguing right now, on the campaign trail, that there's only so much in tax dollars to go around, by way of explaining his government's decision to cut funding for all things Canadiana that he claims Canadians don't really need or want anymore.
Now, I know all about the New Conservative hidden agenda. It comes from guys like Thomas Flanagan, a professor at the University of Calgary who came up here from the U.S. in the early 70s (hm...) and some sort of self-styled preacher named Charles McVety, also here from the good old U.S. of A. Their idea is to strip the Canadian government of its operating budget so that the New Conservatives can finally lay claim to their ideology, that government is a bad thing, that it's inefficient, and that privatization is the answer, the new wave of the future. (You know, like down South where the administration has pretty much gone from anything goes as long as it's private to nationalizing the banks.)
So, if I know this, how is it that the Canadian media doesn't seem to know it, too? You know, so Stephen Harper actually gets called on it during an election campaign?
